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We're very excited to introduce CheckCentral, an incredible new way to manage all of your email alerts & notifications! As system administrators, we know the pain of having to wade through a pile of notification emails every day. Trying to set up some sort of system to deal with them within your inbox is a time-consuming and frustrating experience. Worst of all, there's no good way to deal with notification emails that, for whatever reason, never arrive at all. Perhaps a scheduled task on a server doesn't fire properly, and your backup application never starts to backup. That's certainly something you'd like to be made aware of!

To handle that sort of scenario, CheckCentral brings intelligence to email notification management. CheckCentral will know what notifications to expect & when to expect them based on rules you set up. In CheckCentral, these rules are called checks, and these checks are all displayed on your CheckCentral dashboard.

The CheckCentral Dashboard

Using your dashboard, you'll be able to know the status of all your checks immediately. If you'd like to see the dashboard in action, check out our live demo!

How It Works

A common use for CheckCentral is to monitor regular backup jobs. For example, let's say you're using Veeam to backup some virtual machines on a nightly basis. When setting up your check, CheckCentral will display a check-specific email address to use. Simply configure Veaam to send job reports to that email address. In this example, the e-mail address is democorp+veeam@mycheckcentral.cc, so we'll use that as the "To:" address in the Veeam e-mail options.

Veeam Email Configuration

Back in CheckCentral, you'll tell CheckCentral how often to expect an email for this check, and how long it should wait for that email before marking the check as failed. In this example, the check email should be arriving every day, and if it hasn't arrived within 6 hours of when it was supposed to (24 hours after the last email arrived) we'll mark the check as failed.

CheckCentral Schedule Configuration

Lastly, we tell CheckCentral how it should determine whether the check has succeeded, failed or should be set to warning. In this example, Veeam puts the status of the backup job right in the subject line, so our rules will look something like this:

CheckCentral Rule Configuration

And that's it! CheckCentral now knows to expect an email from Veeam every day, and will only notify you if something requires your attention.

Get Notified

CheckCentral can notify you in a number of ways, including push notifications via our mobile application, text messages and regular old email. In addition, a daily digest email can be sent every day that shows you the current status of your organization. Mobile apps are available for all major platforms, including iOS (via the App Store), Android (via Google Play), Windows Phone (via Windows Store), and Blackberry (via Blackberry World). A complete list of mobile apps is available on our Apps page.

The CheckCentral Mobile App

Team Support

With the Enterprise Edition, you can share your dashboard with your whole team. Each user can set their own notification preferences as well, so only those who need to be notified about specific systems will receive the notifications.

Supports Nearly Everything

CheckCentral works with any application that supports sending email notifications, which turns out to be nearly everything. This includes (but is not limited to):

Veeam Backup & Replication

Altaro Hyper-V Backup

Unitrends Enterprise Backup

Acronis Backup

Symantec Backup Exec

NetXMS

PRTG Network Monitor

Dell iDRAC

Dell OpenManage

VMware vCenter

...and more!

Getting Started

To get started with CheckCentral, head over to our signup page, available here. New accounts start with a 14-day trial of our Pro or Enterprise editions so you can explore all of the features that CheckCentral has available. After the trial ends, you can either switch to our free version or subscribe to Pro or Enterprise. Information on our different subscriptions are available on the Subscription page.

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The following table lists the default keyboard shortcuts that are set on the Functions on the DisplayFusion Settings > Functions tab. There are many more Functions available in DisplayFusion, but we've only assigned keyboard shortcuts to the most used Functions by default.

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 6.1 is now available for download, and also on sale at up to 33% off until September 8th! This release consists mostly of bug fixes, but also adds Zenfolio as a new online wallpaper provider.

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Change Log. We'd like to send out a big thanks to the dozens of people who helped with the DisplayFusion translations, and the thousands of people that helped test the Beta versions. Thanks everyone!

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When using a setup with many monitors, managing the mouse cursor can get a bit unwieldy. Moving the mouse from the left monitor in a 4+ monitor setup can be tedious. In setups where the monitors are arranged vertically, it can be difficult to hit the caption buttons of a maximized application on the bottom monitor. And in setups where a monitor is located in a different room, it can be difficult to get the mouse cursor over to the isolated monitor.

DisplayFusion has a bunch of mouse cursor related Functions that can help in those situations and more!

Mouse Cursor Functions in Settings

Locking the Mouse Cursor to Monitors or Applications

In the example where you have two monitors, arranged vertically, it can be difficult to hit the caption buttons on a window located on the bottom monitor quickly, as the mouse cursor will move to the monitor above if you move it one pixel too far. For this type of setup, the "Lock/Unlock Mouse Cursor to Current Monitor" and "Lock/Unlock Mouse Cursor to Current Window" are very helpful. You can press the key combination for one of those Functions (assign the combo on the Settings > Functions tab), and the mouse cursor will be "stuck" inside the confines of that monitor or application window, until you press the key combination again.

Moving the Mouse Cursor to Monitors or Applications

When you have many monitors connected to your machine, or monitors that are physically located in a different area where you can't see them, it can be tedious and difficult to get the mouse cursor to the monitor that you need it to be on. The "Move Mouse Cursor to…" Functions make it easy to get the mouse cursor to a specific monitor, or to the active application window. Here's a list of those Functions and what they do when you press their associated key combination (set the key combos on the Settings > Functions tab):

Move Mouse Cursor to Centre of Active Window: The mouse cursor will jump to the centre of the application window that currently has focus.

Move Mouse Cursor to Centre of Current Monitor: The mouse cursor will jump to the centre of the monitor that the mouse cursor is currently on.

Move Mouse Cursor to Centre of Different Monitor: You'll be prompted to select a monitor. After choosing a monitor, the mouse cursor will jump to the centre of that monitor. This Function is especially helpful when used in conjunction with the Mirror Monitor Function for viewing/manipulating windows on a monitor that's not located within plain sight.

Move Mouse Cursor to Next/Previous Monitor: The mouse cursor will jump to the same relative location on the next or previous monitor.

How to set a key combination on a Function

Open the DisplayFusion Settings > Functions tab.

Select the Function you wish to assign a key combination to and click the Edit button.

Select one or two modifier keys, and type the keyboard key into the box.

Click OK on the key combination dialog, and Apply on the Settings window.

Using DisplayFusionCommand.exe (version 3.3+) you can control DisplayFusion from an external program or command prompt. DisplayFusionCommand.exe is located in the DisplayFusion installation folder (C:\Program Files\DisplayFusion by default). You can find the syntax and examples below.

-closeall
Closes all DisplayFusion instances with no prompts.

-wallpaperloadprofile "profile name"
Loads the Wallpaper Profile named in the quotes. (v3.4.0+)

-wallpapernextimage
Loads the next random Wallpaper image, if random images are enabled for any of the monitors. (v3.4.0+)

-wallpaperpause
Pauses wallpaper changes, if random images are enabled for any of the monitors. (v7.3.1+)

-wallpaperapply
Re-applies the current Wallpaper Profile. (v8.0+)

-wallpapertoggle
Enables/disables the DisplayFusion Desktop Wallpaper feature. When disabling, the wallpaper will be changed to a solid black background. (v8.0+)

-settingsbackup "file path"
Saves the current DisplayFusion Settings to a .reg file. If you don't specify a file name, the backup will be created in the default location of %USERPROFILE%\Documents\DisplayFusion Backups. (v5.1+)

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DisplayFusion ADMX Templates (v4.1+) are available for controlling the settings below via Group Policy in Active Directory environments. Click here to download the latest version of the ADMX templates. Note that while v4.1 was the first to support Active Directory Group Policy, we add new policy settings with each new version of DisplayFusion. For full compatibility with the latest DisplayFusion ADMX templates, please make sure your client machines are running the latest version of DisplayFusion.

The following registry values can be created manually, deployed via registry script, or using the DisplayFusion ADMX Templates (v4.1+), in order to force the settings on the client. The registry location(s) where they can be created are indicated for each one, using the following legend.

0: The "Show in Windows desktop context menu" option will not be disabled

1: The "Show in Windows desktop context menu" option will be disabled

Versions:

4.0.0+

This setting requires a restart of DisplayFusion to take effect. Note: This setting does not disable the "Show in Windows desktop context menu" option itself, it only disables access to that option in the Settings window. For corporate environments, it's recommended to disable this option during deployment using the appropriate switch/property with the installer.

Note: Changes to this policy will only take effect on the client once DisplayFusion has been restarted. If DisplayFusion is currently not set to startup, and you enable this setting, it will need to be manually launched on the client the first time. Also note that this setting only affects the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run value. If you've deployed it with the option to run for all users, this policy will not remove that setting from the clients.